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Hey, new Bluesky friends! If you're following for my hot political takes, I'm also a bestselling fantasy author with a subversive streak that manifests in my work.
And if you followed for book stuff, be forewarned that you're gonna get the politics, too!
And if you followed for book stuff, be forewarned that you're gonna get the politics, too!
Be the change you wish to see in the world! 🌞🥂
happy winter solstice, everyone
kind of wish we had a longest night celebration like in @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social 's Kushiel books? It always sounded so cool
kind of wish we had a longest night celebration like in @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social 's Kushiel books? It always sounded so cool
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Be the change you wish to see in the world! 🌞🥂
I'm the Queen's Poet, not the Royal Distiller! Wishing you joie! 🌞🥂
Tonight we do our family big fancy dinner out at a nice restaurant, wearing nice clothes.
I did not mean to schedule it for the Solstice/Longest Night, but from now on I think I might!
Where’s my glass of joie, @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social?
I did not mean to schedule it for the Solstice/Longest Night, but from now on I think I might!
Where’s my glass of joie, @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social?
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I'm the Queen's Poet, not the Royal Distiller! Wishing you joie! 🌞🥂
What a wonderful thing to do! One of the good guys. ❤️
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
What a wonderful thing to do! One of the good guys. ❤️
Brava!
"I'm not ashamed of the pictures, I'm ashamed of the way that they were used against me by someone who I don't know."
Read more: bbc.in/4pA2WD1
Read more: bbc.in/4pA2WD1
December 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Brava!
Cartoon villains, I swear.
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Cartoon villains, I swear.
Reposted by Jacqueline Carey
British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
Team Orca
Orcas have started targeting commercial ship control systems, like rudders, to disrupt or break them. Eyewitnesses feel unnerved by the precision of these attacks in how the orcas ignore peripherals and know exactly what to do. Well, duh. Sophisticated intelligence as good or better than our own.
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Team Orca
Trump's Truth Social posts should be widely disseminated. The average American voter has NO idea how deranged and utterly incoherent he is on that platform. Not sure what the best mechanism is to accomplish that.
NEW: Trump says it is "seditious, perhaps even treasonous" to question his health
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Trump's Truth Social posts should be widely disseminated. The average American voter has NO idea how deranged and utterly incoherent he is on that platform. Not sure what the best mechanism is to accomplish that.
What hideous lengths we go to to dehumanize the other. 💔
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-military-bulldozed-bodies-palestinian-aid-seekers-gaza-unmarked-graves-cnn
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation based on video footage, satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts found a 'pattern' of mishandling bodies
www.middleeasteye.net
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
What hideous lengths we go to to dehumanize the other. 💔
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying bank account?
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying bank account?
Plans to dismantle the Statue of Liberty and sell her for scrap coming soon.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Plans to dismantle the Statue of Liberty and sell her for scrap coming soon.
As a child of the 80s, I'm constitutionally obligated to share any list featuring Ladyhawke, but this is a good one.
(Mostly, I'm a hard pass on Woody Allen)
(Mostly, I'm a hard pass on Woody Allen)
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
As a child of the 80s, I'm constitutionally obligated to share any list featuring Ladyhawke, but this is a good one.
(Mostly, I'm a hard pass on Woody Allen)
(Mostly, I'm a hard pass on Woody Allen)
Very interesting, in a terrifying way. 😳
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Very interesting, in a terrifying way. 😳
A nugget of history I did not know! Cool thread.
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A nugget of history I did not know! Cool thread.
It's worth noting that proposals do allow members to invest in diversified index funds, so it's not like they'd be deprived of opportunity to benefit from the S&P 500 etc. 🙄
Members of Congress are getting rich trading stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations.
Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry Mike Johnson Is Stalling
Members of Congress are getting rich trading stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations. Will Mike Johnson stall a ban?
interc.pt
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It's worth noting that proposals do allow members to invest in diversified index funds, so it's not like they'd be deprived of opportunity to benefit from the S&P 500 etc. 🙄
Disgusting. Also possibly a symptom of his increasingly hard to conceal dementia.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Disgusting. Also possibly a symptom of his increasingly hard to conceal dementia.
I lack the energy to decry the extent to which America is becoming a surveillance state with its own secret police, but I would love to slap the word "freedom" out of the mouth of anyone who voted for this.
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I lack the energy to decry the extent to which America is becoming a surveillance state with its own secret police, but I would love to slap the word "freedom" out of the mouth of anyone who voted for this.
What the holy hell. It's not even 9am on Monday morning, and I'm already exhausted by this administration's atrocities.
The Trump administration intensified its pressure campaign against Venezuela on Sunday by placing an aircraft carrier in the Caribbean, announcing that it would designate a Venezuelan group as a foreign terrorist organization.
Trump Administration Escalates Pressure on Venezuela
The Trump administration on Sunday placed an aircraft carrier in the Caribbean and announced it would designate a Venezuelan group as a foreign terrorist organization.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
What the holy hell. It's not even 9am on Monday morning, and I'm already exhausted by this administration's atrocities.
Reposted by Jacqueline Carey
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.
Share it widely.
Share it widely.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.
Share it widely.
Share it widely.
Reposted by Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Dart, by @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social made me realize for I think the first time that prose can be its own incredibly beautiful art form. I was an avid reader before I read Kushiel's Dart, but no book (excepting its sequels) has ever so utterly captured and transported me with its style.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Kushiel's Dart, by @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social made me realize for I think the first time that prose can be its own incredibly beautiful art form. I was an avid reader before I read Kushiel's Dart, but no book (excepting its sequels) has ever so utterly captured and transported me with its style.
Followers of Mammon! Now you can honor the 4th commandment--"Remember the sabbath day, and keep it lucrative"--without all those infernal transaction fees!
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Followers of Mammon! Now you can honor the 4th commandment--"Remember the sabbath day, and keep it lucrative"--without all those infernal transaction fees!
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For my third installment of philosophy and fantasy, join me for a walk through @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social Kushiel's Avatar and how it relates to Simone Weill and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.... (Don't believe me? Argue with me in the comments :) ) youtu.be/VNFtumDIWRM?...
Uncovering Hidden Themes in Kushiel's Avatar
YouTube video by It Is that deep | Fantasy Content Analyzed
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For my third installment of philosophy and fantasy, join me for a walk through @jacquelinecarey.bsky.social Kushiel's Avatar and how it relates to Simone Weill and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.... (Don't believe me? Argue with me in the comments :) ) youtu.be/VNFtumDIWRM?...
I watched a lot of B-grade 1980s post-apocalyptic films in my youth, and based on the level of violent sadism unleashed in this nation, I'd say we're a generation away from Rutger Hauer slamming a dog skull on stake.
This is so sadistic. These people are proud of the terror they're inflicting. They're enjoying it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I watched a lot of B-grade 1980s post-apocalyptic films in my youth, and based on the level of violent sadism unleashed in this nation, I'd say we're a generation away from Rutger Hauer slamming a dog skull on stake.